FIRST YEAR SEMINAR: CHINA THROUGH SATIRE. This seminar introduces students to ways in which artists, activists, humorists, and novelists have used different media forms and messaging to challenge and question the powerful and wealthy in China, from within China and from abroad, through networks of satirical practice. We will consider these and other questions: What does political satire and humor do? By making fun of the powerful, do satirists make claims for social justice and greater equality? Does political satire vary across democratic and authoritarian political contexts?